Prospect Talent Score

Probability of Success

History

2008-09: Jeremy Price played for Nepean of the CJHL, posting 41 points in 55 games. He committed to playing college hockey at Colgate University. He was ranked 113th among North American skaters by Central Scouting, and 149th overall by ISS (May) and was selected by Vancouver in the fourth round (113th overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft.

2009-10: Price skated in 35 of 36 games for Colgate University as a freshman. Price led all Raiders' defensemen with 6 goals and had 8 assists with a +1 plus/minus and 32 PMs. Price scored 4 of his 6 goals on the power play. The Raiders finished 15-15-6 and were fourth in the ECAC Hockey League.

2010-11: Price skated in all 42 games for Colgate as a sophomore and was the team's leading scorer amongst defensemen with 19 points. He had 5 goals with 14 assists and was -9 with 28 PMs on a Raiders' team that struggled for much of the year. Colgate entered February with just three wins before winning 8 of 13 games to reach the ECAC semifinals.

2011-12: Price was the leading scorer amongst Colgate defensemen as a junior. He scored 2 goals, both on the power play, had 21 assists in 36 games and was minus-six with 33 penalty minutes. The Red Raiders advanced to the ECAC Hockey semifinals after finishing fourth during the regular season.

Talent Analysis

Offensive defenseman.

Future

Attended Colgate University, and finished out the 2012-13 season with the Chicago Wolves on a PTO.

Photo: Center Jordan Schroeder, selected 22nd overall in 2009, recently returned to the Canucks lineup after recovering from an ankle injury (courtesy of Bob Frid/Icon SMI)

Things were certainly looking up in Vancouver during the 2008-09 campaign, especially considering the note they ended the 2007-08 season with. After failing to make the playoffs, the Canucks bounced back to secure the third seed in the Western Conference.

Photo: Timely scoring from Wisconsin sophomore Joseph Labate was key for the Badgers down the stretch before the team fell to UMass-Lowell in the first round of the NCAA tournament (courtesy of Fred Kfoury/Icon SMI)

Hockey pundits dubbed the Vancouver Canucks' 2012 NHL Entry Draft selections as "off the board" after their first round selection of Brendan Gaunce. In retrospect, Canucks scouts and management did their utmost to ensure that their later round selections followed several criteria: big, gritty, with a hint of untapped potential.

Photo: Nicklas Jensen, shown here skating for Team Denmark, is expected to return to North America after his season ends in the Swedish Elite League. (courtesy of Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)

For the Vancouver Canucks organization, regular season success over the last half-decade has been a dual-edged sword. Winners of multiple President’s Trophies and continually atop the Northwest Division standings, any neutral hockey enthusiast might think it is crazy to label their success a bane. But on two levels, this success has presented challenges that few organizations would covet.

Had the NHL lockout not come to pass, it certainly would have been an interesting training camp in Penticton this season for the Vancouver Canucks. They have graduated a number of players over the past five years, leaving only a couple of select, higher-tier prospects to mature and come of age. With Ryan Kesler and Alex Edler still on the shelf after surgeries, it was shaping up to be an impromptu game of musical chairs to fill the holes left by Kesler’s and Edler’s convalescence.